Shutdownhook

[Durkin]

Hi. I am writing a java app that will be used as a windows service (using srvany.exe). I want to use a shutdownhook to clear up remaining threads when the service is stopped or the machine shutdown. However my shutdown hook is not firing. I have tried adding it both in the main method and the constructor for the main class and neither works. Any ideas? Durkin

 

[palbano]

>> shutdownhook

do you mean java.rmi.activation.ActivationSystem.shutdown()?

please clarify. be specific.

-pete

 

[idarke]

You can put it, whatever it is, in a finalize method in your main class.

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however
improbable, must be the truth." ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

 

[EarnieDyke]

Durkin,

Did you ever resolve this? I am having a similar problem. Have installed a shutdown hook but when I stop the service in NT the hook does not fire.

Earnie!

 

[hologram]

Maybe the following article (or one of its resources) can help :

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/library/i-signalhandling/